At long last, the process of doing my first book is coming to a close. I started this project last March. Through the process we had to revisit our work numerous times, including each time a new CTP or Beta drop came. For me, 10 months, and Fabrice 2...

ThinqLinq, the proof of concept web site exclusively using VB and LINQ, is now live....

One of our more recent editions to DevAuthority, Edward Buatois a.k.a. be-# has been invited by our sister site (http://www.theruntime.com) to be a contributor over there.  I am thrilled to see Edward moving on to TheRuntime.com and encourage all...

Persons familiar with TOAD for Oracle know about the fairly elaborate search function that lets you search for particular text in procedures, functions, views, column names, triggers, pretty much anything. There's a way to do that in SQL Server as well,...

It's the time of the year when we put the finishing touches on our decorations. As Fabrice annouced, we are in the same mode with our book. The text is almost ready, but you won't be able to get the hard copy under your tree this year unfortunately. If...

I'm sure there's more than one technique for doing this, but this works for me, so I thought I'd share it. Depending on how you count them, there are three or four steps to debugging a .net 2.0 console application by using the IDE: Set a breakpoint...

I decided to write a mock HttpContext....

This is something I ran across as part of my job.  The query at first seems to work by magic, but some thought into what it must be doing helped.  I share my conclusions here.  I looked up some Microsoft documentation on it, which was tantalizing...

Here is a code snippet for getting a file's owner, for example, "schoolone\ebuatois'.  'schoolone' is the domain name, 'ebuatois' is the user name.       using System.IO;      using System.Security.AccessControl;     ...

This is aimed at the novice programmer. When an application exception occurs, it can happen that the error causes a cascade of errors as it bubbles up to your exception handler (whether it be a custom exception handler, or the .net default exception...

In addition to the items I mentioned in my previous Beta 2 - RTM breaking change list, I found a link on the VS 2008 samples page that a whitepaper has been issued on this. Download the whitepaper at this link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/7/e/d7eeb256-5789-411c-a367-c9fda05c2b1c/LINQ_to_SQL_Beta_2_to_RTM_Breaking_Changes.docx...

Although the remoting technology is kind of sun setting in favor of WCF and ‘netTCPBinding’ there are numerous enterprise applications that are heavily dependent upon remoting for their application tier. And I'm working with one such application, rather...

Among the new cool features in Visual Studio 2008, one of the best may be the XML Literal support with VB 9 and LINQ. In my last post, I mentioned some changing features from the Beta to RTM. One that could easily be overlooked is a change to the way...

I've just updated the ThinqLinq proof of concept site for the Visual Studio 2008 release that came out today. If you're following the sample application, or are looking for a sample VB 9 implementation of LINQ in a web site, check out the download at...

It's offical, Soma annouced on his blog that the 3.5 .Net Framework along with Visual Studio 2008 have shipped. I have been excited by the things coming with this release since PDC 2005 and am glad to finally work the the official bits. I am aware of...

I have set-up several feedburner syndication options for my postings for your enjoyment. Feel free to move your aggregator over to those versions of the feeds and show me how much you digg what I have to say. Here's the links for you: Wooley's Wonderings:...

I ran across a good introductory video on BDD here; think of Behavior Driven Development as a refined version of TDD. NSpec needs some work with respect to the semantics of the API. Specifically, the term Must should be introduced into API; Should is...

I guess I prematurely announced the launch of our new blogging community, www.TheRuntime.com After our initial launch we discovered some configuration problems that, although not insrumountable, were just irritating enough to make us look...

If you downloaded the VPC image version of Visual Studio 2008 beta 2, make sure to back-up your data and move anything off of the Team Foundation Server before November 1, 2007. I was just informed that the images will be time bombing on November 1 2007...

Today, I'm not looking at sending mass spam using LINQ to pull a list of recipients. I'm actually referring to the ability to generate the message body using XML Literals. Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage object, we can easily send emails to an SMTP...

I was playing around with .net 2.0's DeflateStream, which compresses streams using the GZip algorithm.  There's two different kinds of compression streams in .net 2.0.  There's DeflateStream, which compresses files without the GZip header, which...

I would like to announce a new community blogging site that has hit the world this week.  www.TheRuntime.com I know what you all are thinking, "Not another blogging community!"  I think you will find this one worth your time to follow. ...

In a previous blog post I reviewed ASP.NET AJAX in Action and walked away with what I felt was a good grasp of ASP.NET AJAX and felt I could get started implementing AJAX in our main enterprise level application.  Recently, I borrowed Professional...

When I originally started the ThinqLinq project I began by loading the RSS feed from my DevAuthority blog, and iterating over the results adding them to the PostItems table in the data context. With LINQ this is relatively easy. Loading the XML from the...

Let me be the first to welcome Edward to DevAuthority.com.  I am thrilled to have you on board (even if his first post did point out my hasty, uneducated post on Generics from the way back machine <grin/>)...  By the way Edward,...